trouble navigating the timeline using this.nextframe

[Guest]

I am really new to actionscript 3 and am having some trouble wrapping my brain around this. I have what basically amounts to a slideshow with navigation. I have a menu frame that has buttons, that when clicked, move down the timeline to a specific frame and stops. From there the navigation has 3 buttons..."menu" (goes back to menu) and "previous" and "next" which have actions associated with it to go to next frame or previous frame. I have an actions layers that has the code in it and it works fine from the menu (attached is the menu actionscript) as long as I click on the item that is on the keyframe directly under the keyframe containing the actionscript. How can I get the frames that aren't directly under the actionscript frame to use the actions?

Attached is the code for the menu keyframe and the slides beyond it

[Colin Holgate]

It would be better to use frame labels than frame numbers. You can still gotoAndStop("label name") instead of using the number, and it has the advantage that currentLabel will refer to the label that is currently in place. So checking on frame 42 to see if the currentFrame is 41 will obviously fail, but checking the currentLabel to see if it's the label on frame 41 will work ok.